AJMC May 22, 2022
The tools we need to achieve long-term stability for community providers and ensure better outcomes for rural Americans are available, and CMS can help us utilize them.
Nearly 14% of Americans live in rural communities. For those of us in health care who work with numbers all day, it’s important to constantly remind ourselves what these figures represent. Each person who makes up that 14% is a unique individual with a name, a face, a family, and a quality of life that should be better served by the health care system.
It is no secret that some of the greatest disparities in health care today exist for those who live in rural America, where geography, lack of infrastructure, and other...